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Telecommunications > Radiotelephone System > Zoned Or Cellular Telephone System > Control Or Access Channel Scanning Control Or Access Channel ScanningControl Or Access Channel Scanning patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.02/22/07 - 20070042775 - System search to detect for a wireless communication network in a crowded frequency band Techniques for efficiently performing system search to obtain service from a wireless system as quickly as possible are described. A terminal initially looks for service from a first (e.g., W-CDMA) system. The terminal identifies network(s) in the first system from which service was received in the past and performs acquisition ... 01/11/07 - 20070010247 - Detection of invalid channel A data transmission method comprises receiving a channel access request to a radio receiving unit from a mobile station of the telecommunication system, and performing an operation on the channel access request using a predefined configuration of devices and algorithms of the radio receiving unit. After filtering the background noise ... 01/04/07 - 20070004406 - System coordinated wlan scanning The invention proposes a scan control device, wherein in the scan operation a network detection is performed, the device comprising a request receiving means (41) for receiving at least one request for providing scan information, and a scan control means (42) for performing a scan operation independently from receiving the ... 01/04/07 - 20070004405 - System and method for accelerating network selection by a wireless user equipment (ue) device A system and method for accelerating network selection by a wireless user equipment (UE) device without having to perform a full band scan (FBS). In one exemplary embodiment, the wireless UE device is operable to scan in a network environment for discovering at least one network. Depending upon geographic region ... 01/04/07 - 20070004404 - System and method for accelerating network selection by a wireless user equipment (ue) device using satellite-based positioning system A system and method for accelerating network selection by a wireless user equipment (UE) device without having to perform a full band scan (FBS). In one exemplary embodiment, the wireless UE device is operable to determine its location using a satellite-based positioning system such as GPS. Based on determining that ... 12/28/06 - 20060293052 - Method and apparatus for transmitting position data using control channels in wireless networks A cellular telephone for use with a cellular telephone network includes a GPS receiver section. Position determination related information is transmitted to and from the cellular telephone using a control channel. ... 12/14/06 - 20060281456 - Apparatus and method for implementing system information acquisition in universal mobile telecommunications system user equipment In a mobile telecommunications system comprising a network of a plurality of cells and at least one user equipment device, the method comprises, in the user equipment device, when the user equipment has system information stored in the user equipment device, which system information has an associated expiration time limit, ... 11/02/06 - 20060246895 - Mobile device and method of adjusting a power measurement period of a received cell signal A mobile device includes an antenna, a signal processing unit and a main processor. The mobile device increases or re-initializes the variable power measurement period based on the occurrence or frequency of cell reselections, rather than relying upon GPS information. The signal processing unit processes RF cell signals received via ... 10/19/06 - 20060234704 - System and method for transmitting/receiving data in a multicarrier communication system A multicarrier communication system divides a full frequency band into a plurality of sub-carrier frequency bands, generates a plurality of segments having a frequency-time domain occupied by a predetermined number of sub-frequency bands and a predetermined number of time intervals, and classifies a plurality of segment types according to each ... 09/21/06 - 20060211421 - Method for scanning wireless frequencies A method of scanning frequencies for registration onto a wireless service provider by a wireless device is provided. The inventive method comprises predefining a priority sequence of frequencies in association with each of a plurality of locations. Itinerary information is received and a current expected location of the device in ... 09/07/06 - 20060199583 - Wireless communication system having mobility-based content delivery The delivery of content across a wireless communication link is based on a mobility state associated with a wireless transceiver. The system employs pricing tiers, which represent each subscriber's mobility-based privileges to specific content. That is, a mobile user can be charged a premium to maintain the same quality of ... 09/07/06 - 20060199582 - Digital wireless communication call processing systems and methods Systems and methods are provided for processing a digital only call origination request. When the digital call is released, a wireless communication device does not scan for a more preferred communication system, even if the wireless communication device has acquired a less preferred communication system. Instead, the device continues to ... 08/24/06 - 20060189312 - Mobile radio terminal If a control unit detects that it is located outside the service area, searching for a base station on the basis of information stored in a first list storage area is conducted with a certain cycle by a first searching means and searching for a base station on the basis ... 08/24/06 - 20060189311 - Apparatus, system, and method for rapid wireless network association An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for rapid wireless network association. The apparatus includes a logic unit containing a plurality of modules configured to functionally execute the necessary steps of conducting a preliminary full band search on a predefined frequency spectrum to identify the frequency of an active communication ... 08/10/06 - 20060178145 - Monitoring for radio frequency activity violations in a licensed frequency band Techniques for monitoring radio frequency (RF) activity in a frequency band where licensed spectrum service is occurring. One or more monitoring devices are deployed at one or more locations in the coverage area of a licensed spectrum service provider. For example, the monitoring device may be integrated into a base ... 08/03/06 - 20060172735 - Apparatus, and associated method, for facilitating selection by a mobile node of a network portion to communicate to effectuate a selected communication service Apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating selection of a radio access network with which a roaming mobile node attempts to effectuate communications pursuant to a selected communication service. Listings are maintained at the mobile node, each containing entries of networks and their communication service capabilities. Different listings identify networks ... 07/06/06 - 20060148473 - Method for assigning an representing data to be used by a remote end The present invention discloses a method for assigning an representing data to be used by a remote end, by which a near end can assign an representing data to a remote end through a telecommunication network so as to enable the remote end to recognize the near end. The method ... 07/06/06 - 20060148472 - Method and apparatus for extending the lower frequency operation of a sampler based vna Circuitry is provided to drive a step recovery diode (SRD) (8) in a sampler based vector network analyzer (VNA) that allows harmonic samplers (10, 11) to operate over many octaves. The circuit includes a digital pulse generator (FIG. 5) for providing a LO signal. The LO signal is provided over ... 07/06/06 - 20060148471 - Method for connecting to a wireless network by synchronization and a device thereof A method for connecting to a wireless network by synchronization and a device thereof overcomes the inconveniences implicit in the method and procedure of connecting to a wireless network by synchronization of the prior art. The device for connecting to a wireless network by synchronization is comprised of: a radio ... 06/29/06 - 20060142004 - Method and apparatus to intelligently perform scanning and assist scanning by profiling scanning history According to one embodiment, a method involves determining whether a wireless connection between a first access point and a wireless station has failed. If so, a partial scanning process is conducted only on a subset of communication channels over which data is transmitted by access points neighboring the first access ... 06/15/06 - 20060128382 - Method of performing network scanning and apparatus using the method Provided is a method of performing network scanning that changes a scanning operation according to whether a wireless network printer establishes a link and performs a specific operation, and an apparatus using the method. The method of performing network scanning in the wireless network printer comprises the steps of storing ... 06/08/06 - 20060121897 - Apparatus and method for reducing message collision between mobile stations simultaneously accessing a base station in a cdma cellular communications system Collisions between messages simultaneously transmitted by multiple spread-spectrum transmitters are reduced by distributing the transmissions over the available resources of the receiver. Each mobile station in a CDMA system uses one or more randomization methods to distribute its transmissions. In the first randomization, the mobile station time-delays its transmissions by ... 06/08/06 - 20060121896 - Method for user identification in a ctcss based radio communication system The invention may be used for communication between a plurality of users in a frequency modulated radio communication system having a continuous tone controlled squelch system, CTCSS. An audio frequency channel and multiple CTCSS sub-channels may be selected for a carrier signal transmission between multiple users. A distinct one of ... 05/25/06 - 20060111103 - Fast active scanning wireless network apparatus and method In a fast active scanning wireless network apparatus and method for quick determination of available access points (20), information about a candidate set of available access points (20) is obtained, and a candidate access point is identified from the candidate set. A mobile station (10) then queries the candidate access ... 05/18/06 - 20060105767 - Method and system for bits and coding assignment utilizing eigen beamforming with fixed rates for closed loop wlan A method and system for bits and coding assignment utilizing Eigen beamforming with fixed rates for a closed loop WLAN is provided. Aspects of the method for communicating information in a communication system may comprise transmitting data via a plurality of radio frequency (RF) channels utilizing a plurality of transmitting ... 05/04/06 - 20060094427 - Network selection in gan environment In one embodiment, a scheme is provided for network discovery and selection by a user equipment (UE) device that is operable in wide area cellular network (WACN) bands as well as in wireless access network bands. In particular, the UE device is operable to select a WACN that is accessible ... 05/04/06 - 20060094426 - Wireless communication system and method A wireless communication system and method that can operate without relying on fixed infrastructure, such as fixed base stations and mobile terminal switching offices (MTSOs), of prior art cellular communication systems. In one embodiment of the invention, a SOWC protocol is used based on de novo creation of communication pathways ... 05/04/06 - 20060094425 - Recharging apparatus An energy harvesting circuit has an active automatic tuning circuit to search for broadcast frequencies in a band of interest and selecting only those broadcast signals received with sufficient RF strength to be used in energy harvesting. This circuit would provide power storage devices with a circuit that has a ... 04/20/06 - 20060084432 - Differentiated access parameters for random access channel Two or more different sets of access parameters are stored in mobile station memory. When the mobile station sends an access message on the reverse access channel, it selects a set of access parameters based on the type of service. For high priority services, the mobile station selects a set ... 04/13/06 - 20060079231 - Apparatus, system and method for providing security service in home network Provided are apparatuses, systems and methods for providing security services. The apparatus includes a network interface unit for transceiving data between a control device and a management device, a controller for controlling provision of services requested from the control device through the network interface unit when a permit time, during ... 04/13/06 - 20060079230 - System and methods for redundant networks Systems and methods for redundant data communication are presented. In some embodiments, a redundant wireless networking system includes at least two wireless access points directly associated with a wired network and configured to provide wireless network access over one or more common areas, and one or more transceivers whose locations ... 03/30/06 - 20060068782 - Cell search method and mobile communication terminal A mobile communication terminal according to the present invention includes: a receiver for receiving a signal from a base station via an antenna; a cell search section for searching for a cell of a desired network; a cell storage section for storing information about a frequency that is used by ... 03/30/06 - 20060068781 - Method and apparatus for efficient network scanning A method and apparatus for efficient network scanning that selects candidate frequencies based upon the frequency bands that were noted as being active during a previous network scan. A mobile device performs a full network scan on power up or on radio cycle and determines the available active bands. This ... 03/16/06 - 20060058027 - Method and apparatus for carrier frequency estimation and correction for gps A method and apparatus for frequency estimation useful in location determination utilizes a plurality of energy detectors to estimate the frequency associated with a peak energy value as determined by the energy detectors. An iterative process is implemented such that the frequency estimate corresponds to the Doppler frequency or carrier ... 03/16/06 - 20060058026 - Methods of operating radio communications devices including predefined streaming times and addresses and related devices Methods of operating radio communications devices may include accepting user input at the radio communications device of a streaming time to initiate media streaming, and accepting user input at the radio communications device of a network address of a streaming server to provide media streaming content. At the streaming time, ... 03/02/06 - 20060046720 - Mobile communications terminal, system and method therefore A method of obtaining communication party identity information in a mobile terminal is disclosed. According to the method, an attempt from a remote communication party to establish communication over a mobile telecommunications network is detected. First identity information about the remote communication party is determined from the detected attempt. A ... 03/02/06 - 20060046719 - Method and apparatus for automatic connection of communication devices A method and apparatus for automatically initiating a long-range wireless connection between two or more communication devices is described herein. According to the present invention, an initiating communication device enters a connection request mode responsive to a connection request input. Once in the connection request mode, the initiating communication device ... 02/23/06 - 20060040663 - Access point apparatus, radio communication system and connection method An access point apparatus includes a first communication unit sending a radio terminal a beacon representing the availability of an access point apparatus, and receiving a connection request signal from the radio terminal in response to the beacon; a second communication unit communicating with a control unit which controls a ... 02/23/06 - 20060040662 - Scanning neighboring base stations in wireless access system Scanning neighboring base stations in a wireless access system is provided. In one embodiment, a method of scanning neighboring base stations for assessing channel quality includes receiving from a serving base station information associated with at least one neighboring base station, and transmitting a scanning request message from a mobile ... 02/09/06 - 20060030318 - Common signaling method and apparatus A common signaling method are apparatus are provided. In one embodiment, a method is provided that enables communication in under-utilized radio frequencies by receiving a master beacon, scanning radio frequencies included in the master beacon, and establishing communications using an unoccupied radio frequency from one of the listed radio frequencies. ... 01/26/06 - 20060019660 - System and method of conforming wireless devices to worldwide regulations Countries or regions of the world can have different regulations governing wireless devices. A client product advantageously conforms to any regulatory environment, thereby allowing the client product to operate permissibly in any wireless network. The client product scans all frequencies at a predetermined interval for explicit information on regulation-conformant methods ... 01/19/06 - 20060014536 - Systems and methods of distributed self-configuration for extended service set mesh networks An embodiment selects radio frequency parameters that are optimal for an extended service set mesh network having a wireless mesh of several access points and clients. This embodiment may include: periodically scanning, by all access points and clients, channels to maintain an up-to-date channel interference table and to detect an ... 01/12/06 - 20060009216 - Multiple mode scanning A method (200) for scanning of channels by a multi-mode communication device includes the steps of making a scan list (230) operative for more than one mode, modifying the scan list (245) to remove all non-current-mode systems, and sequentially scanning (450) a highest priority channel on the modified scan list. ... 12/29/05 - 20050288015 - Intelligent channel scanning in a wireless network When scanning for available channels, a wireless mobile device may reduce the number of channels it scans, and therefore reduce the amount of time spent in scanning, by using the information from some of the scanned channels to eliminate the need to scan some of the other channels. In some ... 12/22/05 - 20050282545 - Method and apparatus for high throughput multiple radio sectorized wireless cell Methods and apparatus for high throughput wireless cells, capable of functioning as access points, are described. The wireless cells may be equipped with multiple radios to increase the amount of throughput available through a single wireless cell. Multiple antennas attached to the radios through RF switches may enable the wireless ... 12/15/05 - 20050277411 - Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method A wireless communication apparatus for performing wireless communication using at least one of the first channel having the first frequency band, and the second channel having the second frequency band which is wider than the first frequency band includes a channel search device which executes the first channel search for ... 12/08/05 - 20050272423 - Adaptive polling of wireless devices In a wireless network, the decision of when and whether to send unsolicited polls to a particular mobile wireless device may be made by monitoring communications conditions affecting the ability of the particular device to gain channel access, and sending unsolicited polls if the ability to gain channel access is ... 11/10/05 - 20050250495 - Apparatus, and associated method, for facilitating a radio resource measurement in a radio communication system Apparatus, and an associated method, for requesting a measurement to be performed at a communication station of a radio communication system, such as a WLAN. A measurement request message is generated at a requesting station. The measurement request message includes fields identifying a selected measurement type and a field identifying ... 11/03/05 - 20050245258 - Method and apparatus for transmission and reception of narrowband signals within a wideband communication system Narrowband remote units will scan over frequencies within a wideband channel spectrum, evaluating frequency-selective channel characteristics. The best sub-channel(s) for communication will be determined and reported back to a base station via a channel-quality report message. The base station will then utilize only a narrowband portion (e.g., one sub-channel comprised ... 10/27/05 - 20050239460 - Method for controlling data transmission in a radio communication system with a hierarchical network architecture The transmission of data is controlled in a radio communication system having a hierarchical network structure. A low-hierarchy device transmits load-based signalling to a high-hierarchy device and the high-hierarchy device caries out control of the transmission capacities of the low-hierarchy device based on the load-based signalling. ... 09/29/05 - 20050215251 - Uplink pilot and signaling transmission in wireless communication systems Techniques to more efficiently transmit pilot and signaling on the uplink in an OFDM system. With subband multiplexing, M usable subbands in the system are partitioned into Q disjoint groups of subbands. Each subband group may be assigned to a different terminal for uplink pilot transmission. Multiple terminals may transmit ... 09/15/05 - 20050202818 - System, communication device, and base station for wireless communications, and control method thereof A wireless communication system comprises; a wireless communication device; and a wireless base station. The wireless communication device detects a fluctuation of the wireless propagation condition; transmits a first uplink signal at a first transmission power to the wireless base station after detecting the fluctuation of the wireless propagation condition, ... 09/08/05 - 20050197119 - Power efficient channel scheduling in a wireless network A method and system for optimizing channel access scheduling for multiple wireless computing devices over a wireless network improves channel access efficiency with respect to a primary channel. An access point, or host computer, includes a host transceiver for receiving control information from the wireless computing devices over a low ... 09/08/05 - 20050197118 - Disseminating control information to a wireless communications device Information for coordinating use of wireless spectrum resources is disseminated from a frequency server in accordance with the geographic location of wireless devices intending to use the spectrum. The information may be disseminated via a beacon station that communicates with the frequency server to obtain spectrum usage information for the ... 08/11/05 - 20050176427 - Apparatus and method for making measurements in universal mobile telecommunications system user equipment A method and apparatus for taking measurements in a mobile telecommunications system is disclosed, the system comprising a network of a plurality of cells and at least one user equipment device. The user equipment device scans frequency bands to generate measurement data for signals received from cells of the network; ... 08/11/05 - 20050176426 - Apparatus and method for making measurements in universal mobile telecommunications system user equipment A method and apparatus for taking measurements in a mobile telecommunications system is disclosed, the system comprising a network of a plurality of cells and at least one user equipment device. The user equipment device scans frequency bands to generate measurement data for signals received from cells of the network; ... 08/04/05 - 20050170832 - Method and apparatus for identifying and acquiring preferred wireless communications systems In a mobile station having an acquired wireless communications system, the mobile station performs preliminary searches for more desirable wireless communications systems in between paging channel and quick paging channel assigned slots, while successfully monitoring the mobile station's assigned slots. The mobile station then analyzes the preliminary search results and ... 08/04/05 - 20050170831 - Frequency switched preamble design to minimize channel estimation time in mimo communication systems A preamble frequency switching design technique for frequency switching the training symbols within the preamble associated with a MIMO communication system ensures that data throughput is optimized. ... 07/21/05 - 20050159154 - Location tracking using directional antennas combined with signal strength measurements A wireless local area network has mobile units which are provided with radios for transmitting and receiving data communications messages between the mobile units and fixed access points. The mobile units are located using signal strength for radio communications between the mobile units and the access points. At least some ... 07/14/05 - 20050153692 - Method and system for providing information on interworking between mobile communication network and wireless local area network A method and system for providing information on mobile communication network-WLAN interworking are provided. In the mobile communication network-WLAN interworking system, interworking WLAN information is broadcast from a mobile communication network to a dual terminal, which has a mobile communication network interface and a WLAN interface. Upon receipt of a ... 06/30/05 - 20050143068 - Device, system and method of communication system monitoring for wireless user equipment In a wireless communications system, during a base station or cell monitoring procedure, a device, system, and method may enable a communication device to determine if a serving base station is transmitting an adequate signal, and, if the base station is not transmitting an adequate signal, identifying another base station ... 06/23/05 - 20050136923 - Fast switching of forward link in wireless system A technique for distributing channel allocation information in a demand access communication system. In a preferred embodiment, for use with Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) type communication, multiple access codes are used that have a defined code repeat period or code epoch. For each such epoch duration, a central controller, ... 06/23/05 - 20050136922 - Power efficient channel scheduling in a wireless network A method and system for optimizing channel access scheduling for multiple wireless computing devices over a wireless network improves channel access efficiency with respect to a primary channel. An access point, or host computer, includes a host transceiver for receiving control information from the wireless computing devices over a low ... 06/23/05 - 20050136921 - Hole-filling channel access Channel access techniques are provided for use in a high throughput wireless network that utilizes multiple wireless channels within a single service set. ... 06/16/05 - 20050130655 - Management of neighbor lists Methods of maintaining neighbor list information in a wireless communication system and corresponding apparatus. The method may comprise maintaining a separate neighbor list for each of a plurality of cells, the neighbor lists indicating neighbor cells and corresponding control channels; maintaining a central link-list database identifying, for each of the ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |